Author: nlpnowcom

There is a saying in English, “all comes to those that wait.”

There is another English saying, “strike whilst the iron is hot.”

Here is another one, “if you have a problem sleep on it.”

The sayings above will all have their counterparts, or similar sayings in most cultures, as has proven in my trainings throughout the world.

Small world, isn’t it?

Many years ago in Carnaby Street, Central London, the birthplace of “mod” fashion of the 1960’s, the place to be seen with the rock stars, I came across a shop selling rings, and saw a special ring that caught my eye. For some time I pondered whether to buy the ring, but I never did, even though I returned many times to the shop, the eye stood out, but my hand never went into my pocket to get the money out to buy it.

One day, perhaps two years after initially setting my eye on the ring, I went back to Carnaby Street to buy the ring. The shop had changed. Now it was sports shirts, running shoes, no jewelry.

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I asked in the new shop where had the old shop gone, no one knew. I asked in neighbouring shops, still no-one knew.

Perhaps I become obsessive with what I do. Yes I think I do.

When I want to know something, to learn something, I search for the information, go the best to learn from them, that is why I sought-out, Paul McKenna, Ormond McGill, Joe McMoneagle, Richard bandler, John Grinder, Paul Scheele, Dr Win Wenger, Tony Buzan, Gianni Golfera, Doug O’Brian, et al, then I can teach others.

When I have a problem, I know I can solve it, perhaps using technology, I will search for the solution, and not rest until I resolve it, for example the Dualphone 3088. (click)

I searched all over London for the ring. Nothing.

Asu joined in the search. Together we would scour the jewelry shops in the back streets of Istanbul only to be offered the Turkish eye. 

Asuman and myself, one evening in Kadikoy, following a strange meal in a square I think named after a duck, came across a shopkeeper that said he could get one, but next week.

I felt good, at last I had it. Or had I? No.

The Turkish Eye

My search continued, Italy, Turkey, Spain, England, India. Nothing.

Then last Sunday, always searching, always seeking the impossible, the missing, I was in Covent Garden Market, I asked a stall holder, and he told me of a shop just off Carnaby Street, The Great Frog, they had them. With hope in my heart, I went to the shop, only to find it closed and with a grill over the window which made it impossible to view the goods on sale.

Undeterred, I returned Monday, and yes they had one, just the one I wanted.

After all these years of searching, the shop was less than 100 yards (metres) from the original shop I had seen all those years ago.

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Sunday was a hot, humid day in London, and I had to catch-up of arrangements for future courses, which meant a trip into Central London.

Whatever is said about the Mayor of London, Ken Livingston, he has made great differences in the scene and transportation systems of the UK capital. More people are using areas of London which only a few years ago were devoid of people, especially the South Bank. New eating places, places to relax, walk, run or have fun none exist.

Walking across the New Hungerford Bridge, linking Waterloo Railway Station, The Royal Festival Hall and the London Eye, to Charing Cross Railway Station and the Embankment, across the River Thames, the vista of London is there for all to see. 

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Downstream Waterloo Bridge, with the nude men (click to see) standing guard either end, St Paul’s Cathedral behind and the new Gerkin building, and cranes indicating more construction underway.

Upstream, the London Eye, the Houses of Parliament, and i the distance, the MI5 building made famous by the James Bond film.

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  In Covent Garden, a popular eating and meeting place, that once used to be the wholesale market for London’s fruit and vegetables. Here was a special celebration for the formation of Malaysia fifty years ago, and there were a variety of displays and dancers for the public to see.

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Today, Sunday, is a better day.

I have awoken early, and feel so much more alive. For the last few days I have been aching, my chest, my neck, my legs. Perhaps I do do too much, put too many hours into each twenty-four hours, trying to achieve too many things.

But, at long last I have the internet working. Me the computer “expert”, taking so long to solve the problem. I still cannot send emails via the new ISP, but that is something they will have to solve on Monday.

Today I well go into Central London to start the arrangements for the up and coming Stage Hypnosis Course in September.

It is a course I love. To take a participant who has never been hypnotised, and in two days get them on the evening of the last day on stage, having gained all the skills to perform a live stage hypnosis show.

                                                            

That is gratifying, and has been for many years since Chanel 4 TV and Discovery Chanel filmed my course and shown it world-wide. To this day I am seen on TV, and people sign up now.